Silliker, Inc. is rebranding to Mérieux NutriSciences as part of a global brand transition that will be completed in 2015.

Through the company’s 5-Star Service® Program, Eriez® offers high quality service and repairs to ensure essential processing equipment and systems remain online. Work takes place on-site at customers’ facilities or at the state-of-the-art Eriez 5-Star Service Center in Erie, PA.

Roka Bioscience, Inc. will be exhibiting at the annual Beef Industry Food Safety Council Summit, March 3-5 in Dallas, TX.

The SaniTimer® is a simple and straight-forward, yet very effective tool in food service as statistics show that improper hand hygiene timing could account for up to 84% of food poisoning in food service establishments.

Lab M has introduced µPrep® Buffered Peptone Water (ISO) to fight challenges associated with the presence of Salmonella in the production of chocolate.

Tetra Pak can now supply Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) labeled packages from anywhere in the world, having received FSC Chain of Custody (CoC) certification for all of its converting plants and market companies.

The DuPont™ BAX® System Real-Time PCR Assay for Listeria monocytogenes has been certified as a Performance Tested Method by the AOAC Research Institute.

Charlie Ingram, Eriez® vice president of sales and marketing, announces that two companies have earned the 2014 Merwin Sales Award––Industrial Motion Technologies, Inc. of West Des Moines, IA, and Dempsco, Inc. of Dayton, OH.

Xcluder™ has expanded its line of innovative pest control products by launching Night Guard™ Rodent-Proof Dock Leveler Seals.

3M Food Safety’s Petrifilm™ Rapid Yeast and Mold Count Plate has been validated by AOAC INTERNATIONAL as a First Action Official Method of Analysis for the detection of yeasts and molds within food products in as little as 48 hours.

This week, Dynamic Conveyor Corporation announced that Lynnfield, MA-based Armac, Inc. has joined their team of conveyor sales agencies.

Eriez® has produced three new videos featuring the highly sensitive, robust and feature-rich Xtreme® Metal Detector. The Xtreme Metal Detector video series can be viewed from the Eriez website and the company’s YouTube channel.

Mars, Incorporated has partnered with IBM Research to launch a consortium to drive advances in global food safety. The 'Sequencing the Food Supply Chain Consortium’--a collaborative food safety platform--will leverage advances in genomics to further our understanding of what makes food safe.

Shimadzu Corporation has announced the launch of their Nexera Unified Chromatography (UC) system which showcases complete automation and combines automatic sample pre-treatment with chromatographic separation and analysis.

The New AiroGen® Onsite Laboratory Gas Generators offer a safe, easy to use, economical and efficient technology for high purity hydrogen gas, nitrogen gas and ZERO AIR analytical grade laboratory gases on demand – High Purity Hydrogen and Nitrogen Gases where you need them and when you need them without the need for gas cylinders.

Sample6 today announced a milestone 2014 as the food industry embraces the shift to proactive testing to make food safer. Sample6’s advanced bioillumination technology and analytics platform reduces testing time to a single shift and simplifies the analysis process–catching potential product issues before they leave the plant and enter the consumer food chain.